And if anyone's up for Star Wars cocktails, please stop by the Yoda's Ears Pub in WA each night for delicious cocktails made by yours truly. Although, if there is interest here, I'll see what I can do about working split shifts!

Yeah gladiator is cool. I like the battle scene at the beginning with the flaming arrows and missiles. The gladiator fights in the collusseum are cool, especially the 'Battle of Carthage' - "Aren't the barbarians supposed to lose the battle of Carthage?"

Nice to know. Anything else happening in the world besides terrorism in Bali, horrible that was. When are these terrorists going to be caught and save us alot of trouble?

Katana_Geldar said:

The problem is that there are far too many. It's like killing sharks to stop them from eating people, you can't kill all of them.

Viceroy_NuteGunray said:

Good point. Just like on Gladiator:
"Some people should know when they are conquored."
"Would you?"

Unfortunately, it's not even that simple. People aren't born good or evil - civillians or terrorists. Rebellionism will always exist while there is injustice and depravity in the world. 'Terrorism' is what happens when people misguidedly believe that they are helping to solve a problem by resorting to violence - murder and suicide. Just like in the Iraqi war when the killing of civillians was considered a 'necessary evil' in order to bring 'justice' to the world, so do many 'terrorists' believe that their deeds are 'justified' in the greater scheme. I am NOT attempting to trivilise any these acts: to me they are all horrendous crimes to humanity. But when we are only given our side of the story - such as in recent wars where journalists were NOT ALLOWED to report from the battlefront unless they were US approved (ie highligting the west as heros and the east as villains) - we do not realise that all of the acts of violence perpetrated come from the same, misguided reasoning. So even if you caught the people responsible for this latest attack, it would not stop the others from taking up their 'cause'. Think about how the west reacts when WE are the targets. It only makes the case stronger in point. Catching or conquering individuals is merely trimming the leaves off a growing sapling. The problem is not that there are masses of 'terrorists' out there, growing like weeds, but that violence is continually being advertised as the answer to violence.